[HCoop-Discuss] Mobile e-mail

[Franklin Gordon Bynum]

Sorry, I meant to send this to "Misc"

On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 15:58 -0700, Franklin Gordon Bynum wrote:
> Is anyone else out there totally frustrated with the mobile e-mail
> options out there?
> 
> Blackberry is just a terrible solution.  It only supports proprietary
> e-mail systems!  How hard would it be for Blackberry Enterprise Server
> to support IMAP??  Not very.  I understand that IMAP, especially over
> SSL, may be too "chatty" for most bandwidth-conservative wireless
> providers.  It would be nice if there were some FOSS
> (reverse-engineered?) implementation of the Blackberry Server that would
> plug into Postfix or my Maildir and perform the essential "PUSH" and
> synchronization functions.  Such a program would be hopelessly redundant
> and would only be confirming to the loathed phone companies' desire for
> a substandard, incompatible system.  
> 
> I could get a Palm and use IMAP over SSL, but the only GSM model is
> pretty old and Palm OS is a dying platform.  Also, the companies charge
> you more than double than a Blackberry plan for a data plan that will
> support an IMAP+SSL setup.
> 
> I have hope for the Access Linux Platform, especially since Orange in
> the UK has now thrown their weight behind it.  But that will take years
> to mature.
> 
> It is shocking that mobile e-mail is in such a primative,
> non-standards-compliant state.  I really wish Hcoop could also securely
> serve my mobile e-mail.
> 
> Frank
> 
> 
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